It happened that Swedish and German plunderers near Sohachev besieged Pan Lushchevski, the starosta of that place, falling upon him at Strugi, his private estate.
In some places they were conversing in crowds, evidently over the same news which the under-starosta of Zabludovo had brought the knights.
The starosta instead of an answer turned to the door of an adjoining room, and called,-- "Olenka!
Before the starosta answered the door opened, and into the room walked a man no longer young, in armor and with a musket in his hand.
Even Pan Hlebovich the starostawas foolish when he was young, but now he keeps us all in order.
We, who before that wished to flee to the woods, thought the matter over and stayed here, for the under-starosta said that after such a lesson the enemy would not look in on us again soon.
The starosta was confused and answered, "I thought this was done with general consent.
Chief command in the castle was to be with the little knight, with whom the starosta left the freedom of making sorties as often as there should be need and possibility.
Pan Adam did not find Volodyovski in Hreptyoff, for the little knight had followed Motovidlo to assist the starosta of Podlyasye against the Crimean horde and Doroshenko.
I think that the starosta of Podolia has not supplied it sufficiently, and also that the inhabitants, secure in their position, have not done what behooved them.
Pan Michael and thestarosta approached the very end of one of the projections of the castle, and began to listen.
You will go to him; you will tell him that the starosta of Podolia has sprained his leg at this place and is waiting for rescue.
The officers from the squadron of the starosta of Podolia and the chamberlain of Premysl, Motovidlo's Cossacks and the Tartars, mingled together.
Pan Michael sent a courier at once with news to the starosta and the bishop that the mines were destroyed, and the miners cut down by a sortie.
The starosta has written us already that you must surrender.
On the square Pan Michael appeared in company with Pan Humyetski, for the starosta had sent them of purpose to make a report of what had happened in the castle.
The starosta looked in at them repeatedly, and advanced amid a hail of bullets, anxious, but regardless of danger.
At about one o'clock that morning the sentry on post near headquarters awakened us and said the starosta was outside and wished to see the commander, whereupon the C.
Upon advice of the American officer the starosta accepted a paper due bill from the British officer for the hay.
In our dealings with the community here, as elsewhere, all transactions were carried on with the starosta or village head.
After the usual ceremony of crossing himself before the icon the starosta announced that he had been overpaid about ninety roubles, which mistake he found after reaching his home and checking over the account again.
But to quiet the feeling of the starosta he advanced him the 92 roubles, giving the headman his address so that he could return the 92 roubles to the American officer when the British due bill came cash.
In both, there is a chief or ruler, one called the khozain or head of the house and the other as above indicated, the starosta or village elder.
The colonel at once sent for the starosta (the village elder as heretofore explained) who immediately presented himself with much bowing and scraping, probably wondering what further ill-luck was to befall him.
The colonel with a great display of pomp and gesticulating firmly impressed the starosta that on the following day all the peasants were to bring to this village their horses, prepared to sell them for the good of the cause.
But his judgment was vindicated later and the honesty of the starosta demonstrated when a letter travelled hundreds of miles to Pinega with 92 roubles for the American officer.
So next day the fool came to dinner, and the Starosta plied him so well with drink that he fell fast asleep.
Then the Starosta ran and fetched Emelyan's sisters-in-law.
The Starosta at once showed him the house where Emelyan lived, and the officer went into it and asked where the fool was.
How could the starosta know where to look for him, when here in this place all were splitting their heads to know what he had done with himself?
Volodyovski bowed low and went out; for at that moment the voevoda of Kieff entered with the starosta of Stobnik and Pan Denhoff, and a number of other military dignitaries.
Saying this, he went to the threshold, struck and opened the door with Chaplinski, and hurled the under-starosta out into the street.
The starosta entered first without announcing himself, but the four knights remained outside.
Had it not been for me, the servants of the starosta would have strangled him.
Quarrels with the Starosta Chaplinski; but that is all nonsense.
After a time they were all in the dining-room in presence of the starosta of Raygrod, whose head almost grazed the ceiling, for in stature he surpassed the Bukoyemskis, and the rooms were exceedingly low in that mansion.
When Mateush Bukoyemski heard the words of the starosta he so struck his knee with his palm that the sound was heard throughout the mansion.
Pan Gideon gazed at the starosta with a look so full of pain that the other stopped speaking.
First of all is Pan Grothus, the starosta of Raigrod.
But Pan Gideon, from the moment that the starosta had told him how aged men marry and sometimes have children, looked with other eyes upon Panna Anulka.
In the course of a few minutes it fell on the stricken cottage, on the starosta standing in the road, on Steinmetz in the door-way.
Then the starosta stole away among the still larches, like the wolf whose cry he imitated so perfectly.
I do not understand, Excellency," said the starosta anxiously.
Therefore the starosta shook his head at the sunset, and forgot to regret the badness of the times from a commercial point of view.
Here, you, Tula, go round with the starosta to his store.
As they walked down the straggling village-street the Moscow doctor told the starosta in no measured terms, as was his wont, wherein lay the heart of the sickness.
We propose spending about an hour in the village, if you will kindly advise the starosta to be ready for us.
When the starosta unceremoniously threw open the door of the miserable cabin belonging to Vasilli Tula, Paul gave a little gasp.
The starosta spread out his thin hands in deprecation.
The starosta had retired to the door-way when the lamp was lighted, his courage having failed him.
The starosta was a timorous man, needing such strong support as his master gave him from time to time.
Go," he said, "with the starostaand get what I tell you.
The starosta was not a bolshak, or head of a family, of the old-fashioned sort.
It seems lonely without our princess," said the starosta as they gathered around the stove.
The starosta sat in the house, making a plough-handle out of a tree-branch which he had cut down one day long ago because he saw it was the right shape for a plough-handle in case he should ever need a new one.
The grown folk had a deal of talking to do--all the privileges that they hoped the starosta would secure from the zemstvo for the commune.
The starostagreatly honored his old mother, and to her he gave the second room in the house for herself alone.
But the feast-table was not yet spread, for the starosta and the older children were still in the fields pulling stubble.
They were to have a house of their own, and not live with the bridegroom's father, for so had the starosta insisted.
But on rainy days, when the starosta would not permit his old mother to do field work, grandmother would sit at home and spin, and then for happy times!
The cowherd woman and the two moujiks who helped the starosta on the land, slept, of course, in the stalls with the cattle under the shed that went around three sides of the court.
You heard the congratulations made to the Starosta when he announced the betrothal of his son to a Viennese Princess; you saw her portrait, for the Starosta let you have it.
But the Starosta would not let it go out of his hand.
And the Starosta always compelled him to remain to dinner.
Then they abased themselves before the Starosta and implored him to give them back their one piece of silver.
So the Red Starosta flung the Rabbi into a dungeon, and for a whole week he experimented upon him with the latest and most approved instruments of torture.
At these words the heart of the Starosta began to beat fiercely.
But the Starosta did not like that expedient either.
Now, there happened to be a Protestant clergyman in the domains of the Starosta who dwelt in the county town, the Rev.
First of all, he induced the Starosta to send his son to St. Petersburg.
Presently there came an agreeable communication subscribed by the Chancellor of the Imperial Court officially informing the Starosta that his son Casimir had been promoted to the rank of major in the First Imperial Uhlan regiment.
But upon the Red Starosta the Rabbi Jitzchak Ben Menachim pronounced this curse-- "A manchild shall never be borne in thy family!
The Starostathen ran and fetched the sisters-in-law.
He called the Starosta before him, and said— “I am sent by the king to take your fool.
The Starosta at once showed him the house where Emelyan lived, and the officer, entering it, asked where the fool was.
When he received the first letter of disagreeable tenor from his starosta some years before, he was already contemplating a plan for a number of changes and improvements in the management of his property.
But although his starosta had written his master almost precisely the same kind of letter the preceding year and the year before that, nevertheless this latest letter came upon him exactly the same, as a disagreeable surprise.
The fact was that the evening before, Oblomof had received from the starosta (steward) of his estate a letter filled with disagreeable tidings.
King Alexander conferred upon Abraham the rank ofStarosta of Smolensk, while Sigismund raised him to the exalted position of Chancellor of the Lithuanian Exchequer.
The same Starosta allowed himself the following "entertainment": he would order Jewish women to climb an apple-tree and call like cuckoos.
Ten years later the Starosta of Brest issued a rescript forbidding the pans to lend money to private persons among the Jews without the knowledge of the Kahal elders.
God bless you," the starosta said with tears in his eyes.
The starosta continued a steady friend to Godfrey.
This man," he said, "has attempted to murder the starosta of his ward, and is for this sentenced to fifty lashes.
He was the starosta or head man of the ward, elected to the position by the votes of his fellow-prisoners.
Kobylin the bandit muttered and scowled whenever the starosta came near him, and there could be little doubt that had he met him outside the prison walls he would have shown him no mercy.
But in the dark it was some time before the starosta could make out the figures on the floor.
If the mishap had met another, the starosta would have laughed and jeered at the man; but when it touched his own person, he roared as a wounded wild beast, and thought only of vengeance.
The starosta invented at that moment "formal installation," thinking justly that the princess would accept this counterfeit money instead of true coin.
The starosta ceased, and for a while silence continued, broken only by the tick-tick of the Dantzig clock.
There was no further talk of leaving Taurogi; and the starosta had no need of doing so, for after this victory parties did not go beyond the Dubisha.
The starosta brought a number of tens of prisoners to Taurogi, and gave orders to slay every one, before Anusia could intercede in their defence.
But he met his own, or better; and in the eyes of Pan Andrei the starosta found such an answer that he dropped his glance to the floor.
Tell the starosta to appoint a keener pander than you.
The starosta of Oshmiana himself, who did not believe greatly in God, but who, like the prince, dreaded dreams and enchantments, staggered somewhat in giving advice.
From Sokolka then in Boguslav's name came Pan Sakovich, under-chamberlain and starosta of Oshmiana, the attendant and personal friend of Prince Boguslav, with a letter and authority to conclude peace.
The starosta thought of removing to Prussia; for parties, made bold by the departure of the troops, began again to push beyond Rossyeni.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starosta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
